Agile Vancouver sessions last Nov…

For those of you who missed or attended the “Much Ado About Agile” conference last November in Vancouver, Eugene Nizker has now made available videos of some of the presentations. Here is the links

• Keynote: Scrum Insights – Ken Schwaber: http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=60
• Keynote: Situated agility – context matters, a lot – Philippe Kruchten:http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=79
• Building a kaizen culture for a high maturity agile organization David Anderson:http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=81
• Man and Machine -Jonathan Kohl: http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=62
• Small is Beautiful – Scalling Agile – Sanjiv Augustine:http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=88
• Cutting an Agile Groove: Coaching Agility – David Hussman:http://www.agilevancouver.ca/modules/agilevancouver/event.jsp?id=87

TechDay (Vanc) extended early bird registration

If you want to register the TechDay … but still want to get the early bird price (even after Oct 15)

Use this promo code… AIT00EB84I

Oxite

Oxite is a simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:

• To provide a sample of ‘core blog functionality’ in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well understood by many developers, but the set of basic functions that a blog needs to implement (trackbacks, rss, comments, etc.) are fairly complex. Hopefully this code helps.
• To provide a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.

What I Like About Oxite

• Reference implementation supports XHTML and CSS
• Built on ASP.NET MVC
• Incorporates jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX (yet to be used extensively)
• Background service infrastructure (i.e. trackbacks)
• Pluggable architecture
• Clean database schema

Qcon SF summary

http://www.infoq.com/articles/qconsf-2008-summary 

Unlike the PDC having the full video sessions http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/, it still provides a good summary of those sessions and link to the Qcon sites for downloading the presentations …

Besides, Eric Evans was interviewed during QCon in San Francisco about the state of the art in Domain-Driven Design. Watch interview

PDC Breakout sessions videos…

Add it to your RSS reader… to have most of sessions online

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/pdc2008/RSS/?tag=videos

PDC08 keynotes online

For those who got budget cut and can’t go to PDC this year… Monday and Tuesday’s PDC 2008 keynotes can be watched online. You may need to use IE to see the video… sorry it’s Microsoft site…, or click the links below if you are using Chrome like me…

Ray finally cover the Cloud computing… I found it interesting in last Qcon 2007… 

Keynote 1

8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time (UTC -8) Monday, October 27 
Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Keynote 2

8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time (UTC -8) Tuesday, October 28 
Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell

Archived … KEYNOTE VIDEO LINKS

10/27 Links

• 750 kbps
• 300 kbps 
• 100 kbp

10/28 Links (when time come…)

• 750 kbps
• 300 kbps
• 100 kbps

Other link

• PDC Session Information
• Channel 9

ASP.NET finally having the first beta release…

Almost a year of community tech preview, the first true beta of the ASP.NET MVC framework has been released. It is a radical departure from the WebForms that has been promoted in the past, returning to mainstream web programming. The MVC pattern used in most of the current framework such as Ruby on Rails and Java’s Spring Framework (spring.net)

It also emphasis on JavaScript, AGAIN…. While WebForms tried to hide JavaScript from the developer, either by wrapping it in controls or by processing data on the server, ASP.NET MVC embraces it. By default MVC web sites get a “Scripts” folder already pre-populated with ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery. 

Another example of vendor influences, which trying to trap you under their proprietary way of thinking, can’t suppress the community evolutions and innovations…

MS Arch Journal 17

Journal 17: Distributed Computing.
Welcome to the 17th issue of The Architecture Journal! In this issue, we focus on Distributed Computing. We are approaching an inflection point with today’s hardware and technologies where a vision from only a few years ago is becoming reality—from deploying applications on microscopic devices in our environment through to football-sized datacenters offering applications in the cloud. Whether small or large, distribution and concurrency of multiple services can introduce a number of challenges—the focus of this issue is to understand what these challenges are, and how they can be overcome.  Download your electronic copy HERE.  

LHC down until 2009…

Due the electrical problem… it will be down till 2009

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR10.08E.html

Large Hadron Collider is ON… we are still here…

The LHC finally on … see more here

All Scientists are waiting for this moment for so many years… hoping to find more in their wish list for supersymmetry, Higgs boson, Dark matters, back holes, extract dimensions…